As Aaron mentioned in his post he and I and a co-worker headed into the Gorge for the day Saturday. Traffic was quite consistent with our longest duration between photos being an hour and 40 minutes. Had the train we were waiting for not gone into emergency for a mysterious reason, our longest wait would have been around 1 hour. In the end we were able to photograph 17 trains! There was traffic on the south side of the river but since our goal was reconnaissance for the Daylight trip in a few weeks so we chose to stay on the north side the entire day. Here’s my selections from the day:
Amtrak 27 running nearly an hour late briefly disturbs the fisherman on the Klickitat river as it roars across the bridge west of Lyle.
After meeting a westbound manifest a train bound for the Oregon Trunk departs from the North Dalles siding.
After dodging Amtrak 28 a westbound manifest winds through the S curve east of Home Valley.
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